Contents Part 1: Elite Utilization 1. Strategic Communication in a Networked Age 13 Daniel Kreiss and Creighton Welch 2. Congressional Campaigns' Motivations for Social Media Adoption 32 Girish J. Gulati and Christine B. Williams 3. Surrogates or Competitors? Social Media Use by Independent Political Actors 53 Julia R. Azari and Benjamin A. Stewart 4. The Competition to Control Campaign Messages on YouTube 74 Robert J. Klotz Part 2: Message Control in the New Media Environment 5. Campaign News in the Time of Twitter 93 Regina G. Lawrence 6. New and Traditional Media Reportage on Electoral Campaign Controversies 113 Mike Gruszczynski 7. Traditional Media, Social Media, and Different Presidential Campaign Messages 136 Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha Part 3: Social Media's Impact on Campaign Politics 8. The Influence of User-Controlled Messages on Candidate Evaluations 155 Joshua Hawthorne and Benjamin R. Warner 9. Terms of Engagement: Online Political Participation and the Impact on Offline Political Participation 181 Meredith Conroy, Jessica T. Feezell, and Mario Guerrero
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